[erlang-questions] Swap 2 elements within a list a la Erlang ?
Jason Dusek
jsnx@REDACTED
Sun Jun 10 04:44:45 CEST 2007
On 6/9/07, Andreas Bakurov <andreasmk2@REDACTED> wrote:
> I am new to Erlang and face a lot of dilemmas...I have implemented
> Knuth's or Fisher-Yates shuffle in Erlang...
A little research just now suggests that Fisher-Yates is well suited
for language that allow destructive updates -- not functional
languages. There's a good substitute posted here:
http://wiki.trapexit.org/index.php/RandomShuffle
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_jsn
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